Bug 594542

Summary: FC12 hangs in boot process with kmod-nvidia installed
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bruce vaNorman <brucevannorman>
Component: kdiff3Assignee: Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: jan.public, ndbecker2
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Description Bruce vaNorman 2010-05-21 00:55:20 UTC
Created attachment 415545 [details]
FC11 working xorg.conf

Description of problem:
boot hangs just after displaying "starting udev:", "setting hostname" never appears. I am unable to migrate to FC-12 at this time.
Nouveau does not seem to support dual video card, dual DVI displays at this time. Found may similar complaints on the web, but no solutions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel - 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE

How reproducible:
consistent and reproducible 100% of the time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC-12 from the DVD
2. add fusion repos
3. yum - y update
- per Fedora FC12 nvidia install instructions -
4. yum -y install kmod-nvidia kmode-nvidia-PAE
5. setsebool -P allow-execstack on
6. add "rdblacklist=nouveau" kernel line in grub.conf
7. re-boot
  
Actual results:
see description of problem above. I let the hang go on for 6 minutes before I timed out.

Expected results:
continue with boot process

Additional info:
The problems with FC11 revolved around my dual video cards, had to set "vmalloc=256M" in grub kernel command line. Tried same and "vmalloc=512M" with FC12. No go.
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I have dual DVI attached SOYO Topaz-S monitors (24"). No VGA displays (too fuzzy). Lesser screen real-estate is completely unacceptable. They are configured as separate X11 clients with 4 workspaces each. Use: software development.

Comment 1 Bruce vaNorman 2010-05-23 21:11:48 UTC
See comments on bug #553569 - nouveau specific.
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PCIe bus assignments (lspci)
00: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
01: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 
02: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2) 
03: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)

Comment 2 Bruce vaNorman 2010-05-23 21:42:02 UTC
Per info posted on bug #553569, I can never use FC12. I hope FC13 is better.

Comment 3 Bruce vaNorman 2010-05-30 22:37:02 UTC
FC-13 works! Yea!!!
kernel 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE
More importantly, it works with the stock nouveau drivers and does not require the vmalloc=256M
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The only problem was the lack of documentation on how to create a harmless xorg.conf that functioned exactly like the installation default (no xorg.conf). A sort of baseline to modify from.
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I have attached the xorg.conf that worked.
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Tue May 12 12:47:54 PDT 2009

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# Section "Files"
#     ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
#     ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
# EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AIGLX" "on"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "XXX M24EI5"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 61.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "XXX M24EI5"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 61.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nouveau"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8200"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    BusID          "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nouveau"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8400 GS"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    BusID          "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
#    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
#    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 14:30:46 UTC
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